Scott Brown Attempts an Argument

Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) said Wednesday that President Barack Obama made his "you didn't build that" comments after getting "bad advice from professor [Elizabeth] Warren." "They're almost verbatim," Brown said on "Fox and Friends," referring to a speech Warren gave last year. "And the president got bad advice from professor Warren, certainly. You'll never hear me demonizing our job creators."

Advertisement - Continue Reading Below

For the benefits of readers who may have joined us late, what McDreamy is saying here is that what the president didn't really say is "almost verbatim" something that his opponent, Elizabeth Warren, didn't say.

(That he said it on Fox and Friends, the morning show that parents let their toddlers watch when they find Fanboy and Chum Chum too intellectually challenging, is just a bonus.)

The Politico reporter does eventually tumble to the notion that there are actual facts involved in this story.

Most Popular

"You built a factory out there?" Warren said during her remarks at a fundraiser in Andover, Mass., last August. "Good for you. But I want to be clear: you moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for; you hired workers the rest of us paid to educate; you were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for." "Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea," she continued. "God bless. Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along."

This is undoubtedly similar to what the president actually said — and no, McDreamy, saying that the Romney campaign is lying their ass off about what he said is not the president "stepping back and correcting the record" — and undeniably true. For example, here in the Commonwealth (God save it!) we are blessed with a junior senator who benefitted early in life from the welfare benefits provided by other taxpayers that his family collected after his parents split, who attended a public high school financed by other taxpayers in Wakefield, who trained in the publicly financed Massachusetts National Guard, and who has been on the public payroll in one way or another since 1992.